Terry Hughes
Highly Cited Researcher, FAA, mentor, tweeting on #science, #environment, #coral #reefs, #climate change, #conservation, Views are my own
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Australia defies international pressure to set emissions targets
Scott Morrison says he is not worried about the future of Australia's fossil fuel exports and will not be dictated to by countries such as Britain.
Terry Hughes
Australia’s PM is “not concerned” about future exports of fossil fuels, despite four of the country's top trading partners adopting net-zero emissions targets.
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ABC flagship current affair programs didn't cover climate change adequately, report finds
A conservation group commissioned ex-ABC journalist Jonathan Holmes to investigate if political pressure was a factor
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#ABC said it had adequately covered “the debate” over climate change.
THERE IS NO LEGITIMATE DEBATE, only degrees of sanctioned denial.
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Coral reef taller than Empire State Building is first discovered in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef for 120 years
It makes a total of eight tall detached reefs in the area, including at Raine Island, home to the world’s…
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The string of “Ribbon” reefs on the right marks the edge of the continental shelf on the northern #GreatBarrierReef, looking southwards. Coral Sea to the left. The newly discovered reef is “detached”, and is 40m deep at its top. @TomBridge07
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New polling shows 79% of Aussies care about climate change. So why doesn't the government listen?
A new poll from The Australia Institute shows 71% of Aussies want the country to be a global leader in climate action. Yet Australia lags behind the rest of the world.
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Australia: Further evidence that framing climate change as a “lefty, inner-city issue” is just plain wrong.
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Federal minister gives green light for koala habitat to be bulldozed for Port Stephens quarry
Conservationists accuse Sussan Ley of choosing ‘rocks over koalas’ after she approved 52 hectares of habitat destruction to expand Brandy Hill quarry
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Ecology 101: Environmental “offsets” - planting seedlings to replace a forest (eventually) - is a recipe for extinction.
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Liverpool’s 30-year boycott of The Sun is one of the most successful of all time
Three decades on, the people of Liverpool have not forgotten
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Half the Corals Dead - But Not in Real Life - Jennifer Marohasy
The claim that half the corals of the Great Barrier Reef are dead is based on a new method using ‘proxies’ (not a direct measure of coral cover), applied to badly cyclone damaged reefs, just after a major coral bleaching event – from which the...
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The Great Barrier Reef Loses Half of Its Corals in Two Decades
Can what is left of this world treasure be saved?
The US would be back on climate change under Biden — and that could be bad news for Australia — ABC News
The final presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was, as many have observed, in another universe to the first. With less shouting and more substance, there was finally some room to observe the starkly different future the two...
Optimising cool-water injections to reduce thermal stress on coral reefs of the Great Barrier Reef
Coral bleaching driven by ocean warming is one of the most visible ecological impacts of climate change and perhaps the greatest threat to the persistence of reefs in the coming decades. In the absence of returning atmospheric greenhouse gas...
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New modelling study confirms “Even for the most physically favourable reefs, cool-water transported through pipes & injected at a reef site is energy expensive, and cannot be scaled up to any meaningful fraction of the 3,100 reefs of the #GreatBarrierReef.
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Queensland election: why the resources council's jobs figures don't pass 'the laugh test'
The QRC claims the resources sector employs 372,000 Queenslanders. But ABS figures say only 66,000 work in mining
ABC news boss warns staff against focus on 'inner city left-wing elites'
Gaven Morris warned taxpayers' funding could be impacted "if we're seen to be representing inner city elite interests".
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Deeply concerning - ABC is under political pressure to ignore anthropogenic climate change.
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Past evidence supports complete loss of Arctic sea ice by 2035
A new study, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, supports predictions that the Arctic could be free of sea ice by 2035.
Melbourne success is inspiring Ireland: COVID-19
"We've got to tell people that if Australia could do it and Victoria could repress the virus right down, we should be able to as well," Irish Professor Luke O'Neill.
David Pocock retires: Australian great quits rugby to focus on conservation efforts
The former Wallabies flanker says ‘the time is right’ to hang up his boots after a 14-year career
Joseph H. Connell (1923–2020)
Joseph (“Joe”) H. Connell, a hugely creative ecologist, died on 1 September at the age of 96. Joe had a knack for devising simple yet rigorous ways to uncover the mechanisms behind the patterns and dynamics in natural communities. Perhaps the most...
The last ditch attempt to protect the Great Barrier Reef from Adani
Two teenagers from North Queenlsand are on a mission. They claim that emissions from the Adani coal mine could speed up the demise of the Great Barrier Reef and the law firm assisting them on their plight is urging the Federal Envorinment Minister...
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When politicians fail us: The last ditch legal attempt to protect the #GreatBarrierReef from a giant new coal mine.
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